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14/03/2024

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ChatGPT creator OpenAI is looking to fuse its artificial intelligence systems into the bodies of humanoid robots as part of a new deal with robotics start-up Figure.

California-based Figure announced the partnership on Thursday along with 675 million dollars (£533m) in venture capital funding from a group that includes Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as well as Microsoft, chipmaker Nvidia and the start-up funding divisions of Amazon, Intel and OpenAI.

Figure is less than two years old and does not have a commercial product but is persuading influential tech industry backers to support its vision of shipping billions of human-like robots to the world’s workplaces and homes.

“If we can just get humanoids to do work that humans are not wanting to do because there’s a shortfall of humans, we can sell millions of humanoids, billions maybe,” Figure CEO Brett Adcock told the Associated Press last year.

For OpenAI, which dabbled in robotics research before pivoting to a focus on the AI large language models that power ChatGPT, the partnership will “open up new possibilities for how robots can help in everyday life”, said Peter Welinder, the San Francisco company’s vice president of product and partnerships.

The collaboration will see OpenAI building specialised AI models for Figure’s humanoid robots, likely based on OpenAI’s existing technology such as GPT language models, the image-generator DALL-E and the new video-generator Sora.

That will help “accelerate Figure’s commercial timeline” by enabling its robots to “process and reason from language”, according to Figure’s announcement.

The company announced in January an agreement with BMW to put its robots to work at a car plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, but has not yet determined exactly how or when they would be used.

Robotics experts differ on the usefulness of robots shaped in human form. Most robots employed in factory and warehouse tasks might have some animal-like features — a robotic arm, finger-like grippers or even legs — but are not truly humanoid.

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The collaboration will see OpenAI building specialised AI models for Figure’s robots.

18/01/2024

Article: Japan literary laureate unashamed about using ChatGPT

The winner of Japan's most prestigious literary award has acknowledged that about "5%" of her futuristic novel was penned by ChatGPT, saying generative AI had helped unlock her potential.

Since the 2022 launch of ChatGPT, an easy-to-use AI chatbot that can deliver an essay upon request within seconds, there have been growing worries about the impact on a range of sectors - books included.

Lauded by a judge for being "almost flawless" and "universally enjoyable", Rie Kudan's latest novel, "Tokyo-to Dojo-to" ("Sympathy Tower Tokyo"), claimed the biannual Akutagawa Prize yesterday.

Set in a futuristic Tokyo, the book revolves around a high-rise prison tower and its architect's intolerance of criminals, with AI a recurring theme.

The 33-year-old author openly admitted that AI heavily influenced her writing process as well.

"I made active use of generative AI like ChatGPT in writing this book," she told a ceremony following the winner's announcement.

"I would say about 5% of the book quoted verbatim the sentences generated by AI."

Outside of her creative activity, Ms Kudan said she frequently toys with AI, confiding her innermost thoughts that "I can never talk to anyone else about".

ChatGPT's responses sometimes inspired dialogue in the novel, she added.

Going forward, she said she wants to keep "good relationships" with AI and "unleash my creativity" in co-existence with it.

When contacted by AFP, the Society for the Promotion of Japanese Literature, the Akutagawa award's organiser, declined to comment.

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The winner of Japan's most prestigious literary award has acknowledged that about "5%" of her futuristic novel was penned by ChatGPT, saying generative AI had helped unlock her potential.

16/01/2024

Article: Artificial intelligence will affect 40% of jobs globally, IMF warns

Artificial intelligence is set to impact 40 per cent of jobs around the world, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned.

The IMF said the impact will be greater for advanced economies, with around 60 per cent of roles affected.

About half of those workers will benefit from the integration of AI, which could boost productivity, but the remainder could see lower salaries, reduced hiring and, “in the most extreme cases, some of these jobs may disappear”, according to the IMF.

In a new report on AI and machine learning, the IMF said the technology could worsen inequality between nations as well as within society as a whole.

Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF’s managing director, said: “We are on the brink of a technological revolution that could jumpstart productivity, boost global growth and raise incomes around the world. Yet it could also replace jobs and deepen inequality.”

She said the impact of AI is unusual in that it can also impact well-paid jobs.

“Historically, automation and information technology have tended to affect routine tasks, but one of the things that sets AI apart is its ability to impact high-skilled jobs,” Ms Georgieva said.

The IMF is concerned that advanced economies can adopt AI more quickly and harness its benefits more than developing nations, and also warned over the impact within societies and communities.

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The International Monetary Fund said nations need to be prepared to harness AI but also lessen its impact on inequality

08/01/2024

Article: Microsoft adds dedicated AI assistant button to Windows PC keyboards

This will be the most significant update to the company’s keyboard in 30 years.

TECHNOLOGY FIRM MICROSOFT is to introduce a dedicated keyboard button for its AI-powered assistant, Copilot, as part of plans to further embed AI into daily computer use.

The tech giant said consumers would begin to see the Copilot key on Windows 11 PCs announced during 2024, which the firm said would be the “year of the AI PC”.

The update is the first significant change to the Windows PC keyboard design in nearly 30 years, and when pressed will enable users to quickly access the AI assistant, which can be used to help with productivity tasks such as organising files and windows on a user’s screen and carrying out more useful internet searches.

It is the latest move by a large technology company to highlight the increasingly central role AI is taking in electronics and computing devices, as harnessing the technology becomes the key battleground across the industry.

Many of the world’s largest tech firms – including Amazon, Google, and Meta – have all announced new or updated AI assistants over the last year, alongside the rise of generative AI chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

In a blog post announcing the Copilot key update, Microsoft consumer chief marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi said the company was “ushering in a significant shift toward a more personal and intelligent computing future where AI will be seamlessly woven into Windows from the system, to the silicon, to the hardware”.

He said adding the Copilot key would “simplify people’s computing experience but also amplify it” and would “empower people to participate in the AI transformation more easily”.

Mehdi confirmed that the first devices housing the new key would begin to appear ahead of and during CES, the technology trade show taking place in Las Vegas next week, and would go on sale from late February.

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11/12/2023

Article: Europe reaches deal on world’s first comprehensive AI rules
The agreement paves the way for legal oversight of technology used in popular generative AI services such as ChatGPT.

EU NEGOTIATORS HAVE clinched a deal on the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules.

The agreement paves the way for legal oversight of technology used in popular generative AI services such as ChatGPT that has promised to transform everyday life and spurred warnings of existential dangers to humanity.

Negotiators from the European Parliament and the bloc’s 27 member countries overcame big differences on controversial points including generative AI and police use of facial recognition surveillance to sign a tentative political agreement for the Artificial Intelligence Act.

As The Journal reported earlier this year when the legislation began making its way through committee, its aim is to introduce more data, copyright and human rights protections.

“Deal!” tweeted European commissioner Thierry Breton. The bloc’s Parliament and member states “have finally reached a political agreement on the Artificial Intelligence Act!”, the parliamentary committee co-leading the body’s negotiating efforts tweeted.

It came after marathon closed-door talks this week, with one session lasting 22 hours before a second round kicked off on Friday morning.

Officials provided scant details on what exactly will make it into the eventual law, which would not take effect until 2025 at the earliest.

They were under the gun to secure a political victory for the flagship legislation but were expected to leave the door open to further talks to work out the fine print, likely to bring more backroom lobbying.

The EU took an early lead in the global race to draw up AI guardrails when it unveiled the first draft of its rulebook in 2021. The recent boom in generative AI, however, sent European officials scrambling to update a proposal poised to serve as a blueprint for the world.

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The agreement paves the way for legal oversight of technology used in popular generative AI services such as ChatGPT.

05/12/2023

Article: ChatGPT is winning the future — but what future is that?

OpenAI didn’t mean to kickstart a generational shift in the technology industry. But it did. Now all we have to decide is where to go from here.

There have been a handful of before-and-after moments in the modern technology era. Everything was one way, and then just like that, it was suddenly obvious it would never be like that again. Netscape showed the world the internet; Facebook made that internet personal; the iPhone made plain how the mobile era would take over. There are others — there’s a dating-app moment in there somewhere, and Netflix starting to stream movies might qualify, too — but not many.

ChatGPT, which OpenAI launched a year ago today, might have been the lowest-key game-changer ever. Nobody took a stage and announced that they’d invented the future, and nobody thought they were launching the thing that would make them rich. If we’ve learned one thing in the last 12 months, it’s that no one — not OpenAI’s competitors, not the tech-using public, not even the platform’s creators — thought ChatGPT would become the fastest-growing consumer technology in history. And in retrospect, the fact that nobody saw ChatGPT coming might be exactly why it has seemingly changed everything.

In the year since ChatGPT launched, it has brought change to practically every corner of the technology industry. In a year otherwise marked by huge decline in venture-capital investing, seemingly any company with “AI” in its pitch deck is able to raise money — $17.9 billion just in the third quarter of this year, according to Pitchbook, and some of the
industry’s biggest VC firms are raising huge funds just to keep pouring money into AI.

A few companies already appear to be at the head of the pack: Anthropic is shaping up to be one of OpenAI’s best and most well-funded competitors, Midjourney’s image-generating AI is improving at a remarkable pace, and even just this week Pika appeared out of nowhere with a seriously impressive AI video tool. But whether you like note-taking apps, audio-mixing tools, or easy ways to summarize meetings or books or legal documents, there’s something new and cool launching practically every day.

Meanwhile, all the way at the other end of the tech industry, AI has consumed the biggest companies on the planet. Microsoft, an OpenAI partner and investor, bet big on an AI-powered Bing while also bringing its AI “Copilots” into Office, Windows, Azure, and more. Google, which invented a lot of the foundational technology that is now suddenly everywhere, scrambled to launch Bard and the Search Generative Experience, and built Duet AI into its own workplace products. AI was the centerpiece of Amazon’s announcements this year, from the LLM-powered Alexa to a million new AI tools for AWS customers. Meta now sees AI as a critical part of its future, maybe even more so than the metaverse. AI hardware made Nvidia one of the most valuable companies on earth. Even Apple, which has moved the least aggressively of the tech giants, has begun to talk more about its AI efforts — and might have big plans for Siri coming soon. I could keep going. Call it a boom, call it a bubble, but it’s been a long time since the whole tech world was this obsessed with a single thing.

Make no mistake, though: ChatGPT is the biggest winner of the ChatGPT revolution. It doesn’t look like much — its new audio and image features are neat, but it’s mostly still just a roughly designed chat interface — and it has been plagued by reliability issues, but that didn’t stop its momentum. It had a million users in five days, 100 million after just two months, and now boasts of having 100 million every week.

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05/12/2023

Article: 'People will end up more sceptical of electoral process': How AI and deepfakes threaten elections

Artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes will be a factor in the upcoming elections in Ireland, according to a senior computer science lecturer.

A recent motion tabled by Fianna Fáil Senator Malcolm Byrne called for the Electoral Commission to create a strategy to tackle the misuse of artificial intelligence in political campaigning.

Dr Dympna O'Sullivan, senior lecturer in computer science and academic lead of the Digital Futures Research Hub at Technological University Dublin, feels the threat is very real, as Ireland heads into a busy period of elections.

There will be local and European elections in 2024, and while the Government has to call a general election by March 2025, there is consistent speculation that the Coalition may call one next year.

Dr O'Sullivan told BreakingNews.ie: "Whether it's images, voice synthesis... they can be really easily produced now, even by anybody without AI expertise. I think it's something we'll have to be very vigilant of in elections."

The EU AI Act aims to bring some regulation to the area. However, Dr O'Sullivan pointed out that it will probably not come into force until around 2025 as it has hit stumbling blocks over generative AI.

"I think the bigger problem is that we haven't really established rules and norms for the digital space in general. Where that has come to the fore is social media and we're seeing what I would call disasters of social media.

"Self regulation does not work, we know that. We've seen the issues around social media tools around toxic content, spreading misinformation without any regulation, they've become really key tools in the culture wars."

She added: "There are some things that the EU AI Act will bring in that will be applicable for this context, for example things like if you generate something using AI, there must be some sort of watermark. Of course, for that, it has to be someone following the rules, not a bad actor, but I think there are other things we need to be looking at.

"Along with regulation, we have to work with the tech companies on this. What are the advanced detection technologies that can be used to debunk and understand these deepfakes? Fact-checking processes are really important too."

Dr O'Sullivan also feels information and education campaigns for the public on AI are vital.

"One of the things I talk about a lot is poor levels of AI literacy in the general public," she said. "Most people have a poor understanding of AI, how it works, and what the general implications are, so that sort of education and awareness about the potential of deepfakes are all part of this broader picture.

"We have to bring lots of people together on the journey: tech companies, policy-makers, regulators, politicians and the public."

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Artificial intelligence (AI) and deepfakes will be a factor in the upcoming elections in Ireland, according to a senior computer science lecturer

26/11/2023

Article: Child catfishing victim and adult perpetrator identified by gardaí using AI

Gardaí used AI to identify a young girl catfished by a 41 year-old man in order to get her to send him sexualised images.

Detective Sergeant Paul Johnstone, of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau (GNCCB) told the DPP’s annual prosecutors' conference at the Convention Centre in Dublin that gardaí were able to use an image of the victim's school crest from her uniform to run a search on Interpol's child sexual exploitation database (ICSE) and got a match to identify the school, the victim, and the suspect.

The child has now had an appropriate intervention, and there is the potential for the prosecution of the suspect.

He was giving an example of how generative AI can help solve real-world crimes.

Det Sgt Johnstone told the conference that AI is both a problem and an asset for police, but added that there are "significant benefits" for law enforcement.

He said, however, that there will “always have to be a final review that takes place by an actual, physical person", in terms of how AI is used for crime prevention.

"There is a human interaction at the very end to make sure that what happens is legitimate and can be stood over under scrutiny," he said.

An Garda Siochána would use generative AI for processing reams of data, he said.

A computer 20 years ago, when Det Sgt Johnstone joined the force, contained the equivalent data of the National Library, but he said that now all computers, and notably smartphones, contained the equivalent of the contents of the national libraries of every European country, making the processing of digital evidence an especially onerous task for law enforcement.

"We can identify victims and suspects using that system (AI), using that process much quicker than we ever could before, certainly much quicker than trawling through 200,000 images of child-sexual abuse material to see if there's an identifiable victim or an object that we might potentially be able to locate, or drill down to what it is, where it is," he said.

He added that AI is also used by the force to minimise the exposure of Garda staff to "offensive material".

"We can automate that process, limit the welfare impact on them, and enable them to move on to something completely different," he said.

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24/11/2023

Overview article about Artifical Intelligence - AI

What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
Artificial intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. Specific applications of AI include expert systems, natural language processing, speech recognition and machine vision.

How does AI work?
As the hype around AI has accelerated, vendors have been scrambling to promote how their products and services use it. Often, what they refer to as AI is simply a component of the technology, such as machine learning. AI requires a foundation of specialized hardware and software for writing and training machine learning algorithms. No single programming language is synonymous with AI, but Python, R, Java, C++ and Julia have features popular with AI developers.

In general, AI systems work by ingesting large amounts of labeled training data, analyzing the data for correlations and patterns, and using these patterns to make predictions about future states. In this way, a chatbot that is fed examples of text can learn to generate lifelike exchanges with people, or an image recognition tool can learn to identify and describe objects in images by reviewing millions of examples. New, rapidly improving generative AI techniques can create realistic text, images, music and other media.

AI programming focuses on cognitive skills that include the following:

Learning. This aspect of AI programming focuses on acquiring data and creating rules for how to turn it into actionable information. The rules, which are called algorithms, provide computing devices with step-by-step instructions for how to complete a specific task.

Reasoning. This aspect of AI programming focuses on choosing the right algorithm to reach a desired outcome.
Self-correction. This aspect of AI programming is designed to continually fine-tune algorithms and ensure they provide the most accurate results possible.
Creativity. This aspect of AI uses neural networks, rules-based systems, statistical methods and other AI techniques to generate new images, new text, new music and new ideas.

Differences between AI, machine learning and deep learning
AI, machine learning and deep learning are common terms in enterprise IT and sometimes used interchangeably, especially by companies in their marketing materials. But there are distinctions. The term AI, coined in the 1950s, refers to the simulation of human intelligence by machines. It covers an ever-changing set of capabilities as new technologies are developed. Technologies that come under the umbrella of AI include machine learning and deep learning.

Machine learning enables software applications to become more accurate at predicting outcomes without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms use historical data as input to predict new output values. This approach became vastly more effective with the rise of large data sets to train on. Deep learning, a subset of machine learning, is based on our understanding of how the brain is structured. Deep learning's use of artificial neural network structure is the underpinning of recent advances in AI, including self-driving cars and ChatGPT.

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17/11/2023

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